summer shorts: data storytelling

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Data Storytelling

Porter ThorndikeTechnical Director

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The importance of Titles

• Nicholas Porter of House Thorndike, first of his name, • the Rainmaker, • Thorndeesi of the Green Mountains of Vermont, • Summa Cum Laude in Fear of Talking to Women, • Pre-Sales Technical Director of North America, • unanimously voted best hair at Information Builders, • Gold Medalist from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in the

Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Ribbon Stick competition and • mother of Advanced Visualizations

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Data Storytelling

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Storytelling

I was vacationing with my family in York Beach, Maine over the July 4th Holiday. My daughter was playing with a friend of hers and I snuck up behind them with a cold bucket of ocean water. I asked them if they were hot and when they looked at me I dumped the bucket of water on them.

• Your own experiences• Narration

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Storytelling

I was vacationing with my family in York Beach, Maine over the July 4th Holiday. My daughter was playing with a friend of hers and I snuck up behind them with a cold bucket of ocean water. I asked them if they were hot and when they looked at me I dumped the bucket of water on them.

• Your own experiences• Narration• Imagery

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Storytelling

• Your own experiences• Narration• Data• Visualization

Full Screen Capture Page


Charles Minard – Sankey Diagram of Napoleon's campaign to Moscow


John Snow – Map of Cholera outbreak in London


Census Data


Citibike Data


Final Four Data


http://annkemery.com/four-storytelling-strategies/?es_p=1372510

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Best practice vs Advanced Viz?http://www.computerworld.com/article/3048315/data-analytics/the-inevitability-of-data-visualization-criticism.html#tk.twt_ctw?es_p=1566893&utm_content=buffer24bbb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Poll Question #1

How do you prefer to communicate your story?

1.Visual best practice2.Exotic Data Visualization

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Data Storytellinghttp://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-hells-gotten-into-daniel-murphy/

• Current Events/Journalism• Visualization• Narration

Stephen FewIs there a better metric?Why is this important?Is that good?

“Design must become an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the true needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.”


http://www.davidmccandless.com/

Stephen FewWhat Is the Best Response to Bad Practices?https://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=2154

During the last two days, I spent a great deal of time corresponding with my friend Alberto Cairo after he informed me that he was hosting a public lecture by David McCandless at the University of Miami. Alberto and I are both critical of McCandless’ infographics. I am more passionate in my criticism, however, perhaps because I frequently and directly encounter the ill effects of McCandless’ influence. More than anyone else working in data visualization today, McCandless has influenced people to design data visualizations in ways that are eye-catching but difficult to read and often inaccurate. Also more than anyone else, when my readers and students talk about the challenges that they face in the workplace because their bosses and clients expect eye-candy rather than useful information effectively displayed, they identify McCandless as the source of this problem.

https://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=2154




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What Skills are required to be a data storyteller?

Curiosity/Hypothesis Data

Find/Access Wrangle Discover

Analytical Communication

Visualization Narration Conclusion?

Design

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What technologies are used?

R is used in every step of the data journalism process: for cleaning and processing data, for exploratory graphing and statistical analysis, for models deploying in real time as and to create publishable data visualizations. We write R code to underpin several of our popular interactives, as well, like the Facebook Primary and our historical Elo ratings of NBA and NFL teams. Heck, we’ve even styled a custom ggplot2 theme. We even use R code on long-term investigative projects.-Andrew Flowers

http://flowingdata.com/2016/07/12/r-in-the-data-journalism-workflow-at-fivethirtyeight/

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Nate Silver


http://fivethirtyeight.com/


http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-juiced-balls-the-new-steroids/

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Kat Downs-Mulder


http://postgraphics.tumblr.com/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/obama-party/


http://flowingdata.com/


http://datausa.io/

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Alberto Cairo

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Giorgia Lupihttp://giorgialupi.com/work/

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Giorgia Lupihttp://giorgialupi.com/work/#/famous-writers-sleep-habit-and-productivity//

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Dr. Randal Olsenhttp://www.randalolson.com/blog/

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Porter Thorndikehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/porter-thorndike-748bba89?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile

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Porter Thorndikehttps://twitter.com/PorterThorndike

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Poll Question #2

Who is the greatest data storytelling Rockstar?

1.Nate Silver2.Nathan Yau3.John Snow4.Charles Minard5.Kat Downs-Mulder6.Other

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Data StorytellingHow can I do it?


Data Storytelling in WebFOCUS

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How can we help?

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How can we help?

Analyze

Discover

It’s like an Investigation

Answer the What

Answer the why

Present – Tell the Story

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The FutureNatural Language Generation

What are the components?

Don’t be intimidated!

summer shorts: data storytelling

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